Well with the new PC everythings been going fine for the past few days, well last night I realized Im at 399 of 465GB used...seemed a little high and with all the files in the C: drive itself...only added up to ~20gigs. So...downloaded Kaspersky 7.0 ran it...clean no viruses. So I did a system restore back to the date before I purchased it...everything goes good...Then I realize its now at 377gigs free...thats 22 gigs more being used...after a system restore...any ideas?
Well you'll never get all of what it say's ont he box. I take you have a 500gb drive, with 465gb out of the box? My OS are you running? Also, if it's an IBM, you will have allot of space for backups. Byt allot, i mean up to 30gb reported on over sites. I've read about companies putting "hidden" image on your hard drive to restore your system to the state when you first bought it, insted of a recovcery disc. "One important thing to note is that hard drive manufacturers and most software developers use different definitions for the work Gigabyte. The former uses 10^9 while the latter uses 2^30. The difference is that for every 100GB your hard drive is labeled as, Windows will only report 93GB, or about 7GB less" http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
This may be due to the temp files. Check your Temp folder in the Application Data folder. You didn't state which OS you're using so I can't give you the definite url for your explorer bar. I've had the same problem on my old laptop. I found out that my Temp folder had 20+ GB used because of my daily use of my designing software. For some reason, the temp files stored inside that folder has accumulated to 8+GB per use. I'm not sure if it's the same for you but hope this helps.
I've somewhat fixed the problem...Hasn't been happening as of lately...so Im assuming it was just system files and such taking up "space"...Ooooh and its Vista Home Premium.
asnicasus said, you're going to be 8% short of stated capacity . operating systems measure in kibi bytes mibibytes and gibibytes(but still refers to them as kilo mega and kiga) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte some people even sued seagate for it. IMO it's the OS people that should change.
